Trump acting Pentagon chief defends military response to Jan. 6 riot at Capitol 3 days ago Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller briefs reporters from the Pentagon on Nov. 17, 2020. (Air Force Staff Sgt. Jack Sanders/DoD) WASHINGTON President Donald Trump’s acting defense secretary during the Jan. 6 Capitol riots plans to tell Congress that he was concerned in the days before the insurrection that sending troops to the building would fan fears of a military coup and could cause a repeat of the deadly Kent State shootings, according to a copy of prepared remarks obtained by The Associated Press.
Christopher Miller’s testimony is aimed at defending the Pentagon’s response to the chaos of the day and rebutting broad criticism that military forces were too slow to arrive even as pro-Trump rioters violently breached the building and stormed inside. He casts himself as a deliberate leader who was determined that the military have only limited involvement, a perspecti
Military parents would get 12 weeks of leave to care for new children under congressional proposal May 11 Hospitalman Juliana Dejesus conducts a newborn screening exam in Naval Hospital Jacksonville’s maternal infant unit on Aug. 17, 2017. (Jacob Sippel/Navy) All military parents would get 12 weeks of family leave to care for a new child and would see increased flexibility
in how they use that time off under a new legislative proposal introduced on Tuesday. The Servicemember Parental Leave Equity Act, backed by bipartisan group 31 House members, would cover both primary and secondary caregivers, significantly boosting the unpaid leave available to each under current military rules.
US military trashes unwanted gear in Afghanistan, sells as scrap 5 days ago Afghans stand inside Baba Mir s scrapyard outside Bagram Air Base, northwest of the capital Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 3, 2021. (Rahmat Gul/AP) BAGRAM, Afghanistan The twisted remains of several all-terrain vehicles leaned precariously inside Baba Mir’s sprawling scrapyard, alongside smashed shards that were once generators, tank tracks that have been dismantled into chunks of metal, and mountains of tents reduced to sliced up fabric. It’s all U.S. military equipment. The Americans are dismantling their portion of nearby Bagram Air Base, their largest remaining outpost in Afghanistan, and anything that they are not taking home or giving to the Afghan military, they destroy as completely as possible.